Chalayan Talks About His Digital Show

Hussein Chalayan's fashion shows are well known for their innovative, technological feats. Each one has sort of become something of legend, with models lifting coffee tables into skirts and robotically undressing mid-catwalk. The designer's spring 2012 performance was no exception—he teamed up with The Creators Project to bring life to a collection inspired by, "crafts and the old way of thinking, but on minimal shapes."

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The presentation, which took place during the September shows in Paris, featured a wigged-out Chalayan playing butler to his bevy of models who sipped champagne from glasses equipped with concealed cameras. "There's something quite primal about it," Chalayan said in a just-released video that chronicles the road to his spring show, where the inside of each model's mouth was projected onto a runway backdrop.

The two-part series, released by VICE media—a key conspirator in The Creators Project program—shows Chalayan getting increasingly nervous as the techy kinks are worked out pre-show. "Technology is really the only thing through which you can do new things, everything has already been done," he carefully explained. Click through to watch Part 1!